Now, my Mother’s Day post could be more of the snarky, buck-the-zeitgeist shtick that you’ve come to know and possibly love. But… with my father spending Mother’s Day in a Florida hospital so he can take care of his mother… somehow the snarky thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
But buck-the-zeitgeist? Oh yeah. We’re definitely staying with that.
So, instead of something cutesy, my Mother’s Day post is in keeping with the original, anti-war and peaceful intention of Mother’s Day (at least in the United States), which Shanoah brought to my attention in his Mother’s Day post.
Your first offering is John Lennon’s Imagine… one of the most beautiful anti-war, anti-anything songs ever made. Is such a future naïve? Maybe. But it’s a hell of a lot better than the endless oil and food wars we have to look forward to.
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Your second Mother’s Day song is The Byrds’ Turn! Turn! Turn! which, as you probably know, is taken almost word-for-word from the Bible – specifically Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. The Byrds weren’t the first to record Turn! Turn! Turn! Pete Seeger wrote it way back in the 1950s, and it was recorded by the Limeliters and by Judy Collins before the Byrds’ 1965 version. But the Byrds were the ones who made the song a hit.
Turn! Turn! Turn! is actually not the anti-war song that everyone makes it out to be: there is a time for war and a time for peace, for love and for hate. The point is that, though there may be a time for war, it’s not all the time, no matter what our politicians and talking heads (who I’m positive got all their foreign policy training from Risk and Command and Conquer) might tell you. It’s a beautiful song that brings with it the weight of the Bible and the word of God… and since we are after all a Christian nation (or so I keep hearing we are), we oughta listen to it, right?
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